Aunt Tiffany Is So Proud

"Babies are such a nice way to start people." ~Don Herold

I'm not a huge kid person. I wouldn't say I dislike kids, but I'm not one of those girls that is dying to have one anytime soon either. My biological clock is certainly not ticking. However, Aunt Tiffany spent lots of baby time the last couple of weekends with my favorite kiddos.

Eli James (Little Linebacker) and Madilyn Rose (Little Princess)

and Landon (Little Yao Ming).

Little Linebacker is my SoulMateFriend's baby. I feel a special connection to him because I was the first person to know that SoulMateFriend was pregnant. Her husband was at a band concert, so she picked up the phone and gave me the exciting news! We spent the next hour googling "false positive pregnancy tests" just to be sure we were not getting excited about nothing. As soon as I was convinced (thank you, Web MD) I rushed to the bookstore to pick up a book on pregnancy (Girlfriend's Guide to Pregnancy) and to the store to get some cute baby stuff!
Nine months later, Little Linebacker was here! He's the cutest little thing ever--and he is so built to be an athlete. His little legs are all muscle and I swear, I swear, we were talking about football and when I said Notre Dame, he smiled and laughed. YES!


Little Princess is the first baby for my group of college friends we'll call Animal House. I'm not bragging, but the group earned the name--we're talking college classic stuff here. These guys were a part of most of my best college memories, and I can't believe that any of them are actually having babies! One of these boys, the Governor married a girl who hung out with the group, FavoriteWife. (Not because he has moe than one wife, but because of all the friends' wives, she's my favorite!)They started our group off by getting married first and now having the first baby. She is honestly the prettiest baby girl I've ever seen in my whole life. Most newborns are red and wrinkly--not Little Princess, she was beautiful when Aunt Tiffany met her 18 hours after she arrived. She's only the second baby I've ever actually met in the hospital, but she's set the bar pretty high for the ones to come!

Little Yao Ming is my first Asian nephew. :) His mom, Canoe Friend, and I worked together when I spent the summer in San Francisco. We hit it off right away and have stayed in touch for the last two years. I call her Canoe Friend because if you remember my canoeing blog, she and her husband were the nice couple in the canoe who was so kind and supportive when they got stuck in the tree branches.

I was so lucky that they were able to meet me in San Francisco last weekend so I could meet Little Yao Ming for the first time. And FYI--he's in the 95% for height. These may not just be crazy Aunt Tiff dreams of NBA fame and fortune here! He is such a happy, adorable little baby!

I can't wait to watch these three little ones grow up.

And a special note to two of my dear friends who are both really struggling to get pregnant---I have complete faith that soon, I'll be blogging about your beautiful little ones!

I am so lucky to be able to live vicariously through my amazing friends.....and lucky that they have to change the diapers instead of me!